Pictured: France Perras as Germaine Lauzon. Photo by Tim Matheson. “My life is shit and it always will be… This stupid rotten life!” Jessica Kim Germaine Lauzon (France Perras) wins one million- one million(!) Gold Star stamps that can be traded for anything on the catalogue. When she invites her sisters and neighbors for a
Ivonne Zhao SELF-ish tells a simple story: it follows the internal monologue of one Korean-Canadian woman, Esther Jin (Diana Bang), as she copes with the loss of her father. From the onset, too, it seems rather unfussy – the entire 60-minute play is a one-woman show run by Diana Bang, performed with simple lighting, a
Jessica Kim Somebody said: Hey, let’s do a little mini acrobatic circus show, but with only mattresses and men in tights as our equipment! So, this show was born. Josh Green, the creator and star of the show says it’s “a powerful message about procrastination… what if you fed it and it turned into something
Danisa Rambing On Monday of this week, a Cultch-style showing of Neil Labute’s notorious play, The Shape of Things brought an audience of roughly 30 theatre freaks, fans, fanatics onto an emotional roller coaster. The show starred Julian Legere, Fairlith Harvey, Marissa Burton and Harrison MacDonald and was directed by Chelsey Stuyt. This complex love
Pictured: James Yi and Lee Shorten. Photo by Jalen Saip. “I love you, too, appa, and no one’s twisting my arm to say it“ Jessica Kim The cynic in me says representation is a fad. Disney wants it. Pixar shows it. Hollywood sells it. Black Panther, Moana, Coco, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,
Rapid, one or two paragraph reviews of select 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival shows! Shows: Die Hard: The Musical-ish Poly Queer Love Ballad Forget Me Not – The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit Self-ish The Shape of Things My Imagination Ran Away Without Me
Pictured (L to R): Beatrice Zeilinger, Lynda Boyd and Nicola Cavendish. Photo by David Cooper. Jessica Kim Kay Meek Arts Centre and Wing & Prayer Productions present Marion Bridge, a play about three estranged sisters and their past, present, and future. Each sister struggles and confronts events and traumas while caring for their dying mother. “Happy
Forget Me Not – The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit (Fringe): Review
Jessica Kim “Darling. Are you here all day? All day? Marvelous!” This show was nothing like I thought it would be, and by that I mean literally. I mean, if I actually read the press release beforehand I would’ve known, but where’s the fun in that? Yes, this was a “play” about a man with
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